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frequenting a port, whose principal
attractions for
such traders had
hitherto been the complete security
which it had for many years
afforded them against the "squeezes"
and
corrupt exactions of their
Mandarins and more
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awan
of the tower
under
that, on
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or otherwise of a proposition
however
monstrous it
may appear
without duly weighing the reasons
on
which it is founded.
5. In that respect
Mr Wade entirely fails to
conviction
especially
a
class of employés
those mandarins.
4. It is true however.
the principle, which justifies
the most prodigious sacrifices-
throwing overboard
a
such as
cargo
to save
a
vessel
valuable
sometimes happens the-
destruction
to
save
the vessel itself.
of the
we
life. We have
right to determine the
expediency
to my
mind
carry
and I
scarcely remember to have seen State Paper giving such
insufficient
reasons.
extensive and
involving, changes
in
for s
anomalous a
proposal
as it does, unprecedented
International
usage.
and an interference with the whole commercial economy of a
most important British Colony- which in the year 1869, before
I left it, counted upwards of
five
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